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Kenosha’s Lemon Street Gallery will host a live Art Auction of the works created during their plein air event, CAGED! Artists In Their Natural Habitat, which was held July 10 in Union Park. The auction will take place at Kenosha HarborMarket on September 11, 1pm. HarborMarket is located in Downtown Kenosha, at 56th Street, along 2nd Avenue.

With the focus on fun, the auctioneer will be Milwaukee comedian, Dylan Bolin.

Bolin is a writer, actor, comedian and Sagittarius. In addition to touring with his one-man show, “Peace, Love and a 30-Year Mortgage,” he performs regularly with Milwaukee’s ComedySportz, and is a featured guest of the Dave and Carole Morning Show on 96.5/WKLH.

For more information:

Melanie Hovey
Director
Lemon Street Gallery
4601 Sheridan Road
Kenosha, WI 53140
Tel. 262-605-4745
lemonstreetgallery.org

CAGED! Artists in Their Natural Habitat

Live Art Auction
September 11 at 1:00 pm at Kenosha HarborMarket

On September 11th, the public is invited to Lemon Street Gallery’s CAGED! Artists in Their Natural Habitat to see artists and bid on pieces that are up for auction. Bidder registration begins at noon. Pieces available for auction can be seen in ArtWorks, Biggby Coffee, Common Grounds, Down the Rabbit Hole, Minuteman Press, and in brochures available at the gallery. Here is an interesting way to acquire a unique and beautiful piece of artwork and mingle with renowned artists.

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

We are bombing Union Park!

With yarn that is. What is a yarn bomb? Well, come to Union Park, scope out the areas trees and benches, and then knit a sweater or crochet a scarf to cover parts of them. It’s like soft graffiti for the fun of it! Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch, a camera to capture this unique activity, and to stick around for prizes that will be awarded for various creations. Participants are also encouraged to laminate a tag identifying their yarn bomb for all to see! If you don’t know how to knit or crochet, have no fear; the Kenosha Public Libraries have plenty of books on the subject. Yarn is also available at both Simmons and Southwest Libraries. Presented by Lemon Street Gallery and the Kenosha Public Library, this fun event takes place on Saturday, September 25th, at 11:00. Union Park is located at 45th St. and 7th Ave.

By Bill Burggren and Suellyn Scoon

“When you see a photograph, you are looking through the eyes of the artist at a singular event in time; never to be exactly duplicated again,” states photographer John Mazurek. “You could say that I begin to create a composition much like a writer does, by building with elements similar to clear factual prose and with my computer I work to distill that information into a form of poetry, which I hope becomes a dialogue with the viewer. For me it is a very intuitive process.”

John Mazurek brings you the world through his eyes and allows you to share the joy of nature, the treasure of a new location or the delight of a unique face. Add to that his artistic manipulation and what started off as a work of prose is now more like poetry. Not simply the recording of an event but the incubation of a new reality.
While attending college, he would often wander the streets of Chicago to discover that “unique angle” that would enable him to tell a story with an image. The old Stockyards were used for a series of images to portray the dying of that iconic Chicago meatpacking industry. While still using black and white images, he told the narrative of how a peaceful concert in Grant Park turned into an urban riot. These images were part of his recent one person show, “There’s a Riot Going On”, at Spectrum Gallery in Racine, WI, and were joined by another stark series in which the streets of Chicago could have been compared to the bombed out buildings of WWII. Soon after Martin Luther King was killed, the streets of Chicago erupted in violent riots. John Mazurek, then an inner-city teacher, was enveloped in the drama of those events. His camera recorded the effects of the riot, the looting and the impact on Chicago residents.

Mazurek’s initial black and white narrative photography that began with the stockyards of Chicago through an era of civil rights violence had a starkness that has softened over the years into something that resembles preserved memories.
Mazurek began as a film photographer over 45 years ago with a 35mm camera in his basement darkroom. He loved visually exploring life’s moments, using his camera to manipulate time, light, angles and perspective. While raising a family and pursuing a career, he always had a camera close by to record events.
However, as times changed, so did John’s approach to photography. He realized that photography is not only a way of preserving memories and sharing experiences, but also an art form that should be celebrated. Around this time, digital photography was in its infancy and he committed himself to learning the power and creativity that the marriage of cameras and computers allowed. “As I responded more and more to a single moment, I needed to teach myself methods that would allow me to express how that moment holds it breath in a photograph. My art has been shaped as photographic technology improved, and when you add the possibility for editing with a computer you have a union that I believe is technically superb and artistically satisfying.”
Not only did John’s tools of capturing an image change, but the process of conceiving an image or a series of images into a composition has changed. Originally, he saw his task as that of recording a subject or event as accurately and faithfully as possible. Now he sees that as a starting point in the creative process. Sometimes he will record several photos to build a final image. Other times he will choose from hundreds of images to find the critical one that will begin the move from thought to a new reality. Mazurek primarily uses Photoshop CS4 as an artistic editing tool, often working for hours and sometimes using dozens of layers and multiple techniques to create a new artistic piece.

At a recent show in Racine Wisconsin, ArtSite used vacant downtown storefront windows to showcase art. John was invited to bring large photographic images printed on metallic paper to the show. This series of vintage automobile photographs reveal their essence as strong organic forms.

Mazurek will show part of his new three person show at Lemon Street Gallery running July 28 through August 28 with an Artist Reception on Second Saturday, August 14th.

A fundraiser for Kenosha’s Lemon Street Gallery, “CAGED! Artists In Their Natural Habitat,” will take place on Saturday, July 10th in Union Park beginning at 10am. This event will feature 25 artists who, donating their time and talent, will each produce an art piece while the public looks on. The public can come and go as these works are being created throughout the day. Then at 4pm, the artwork may be purchased for a predetermined price. Most pieces, however, will go on exhibit in area businesses for the month of August to give the artists greater exposure, and more community members the opportunity to see what was created. All the work will be sold on September 11th at Kenosha HarborMarket during a live public auction at 1pm.

To open the art-making event, Lemon Street will dedicate the Bruce Niemi sculpture, Full Sail I, that was placed in Union Park last month. The public is invited to meet the artist, who will speak, along with Mayor Bosman, Alderman Ted Ruffalo and others.

The sculpture dedication will take place in Union Park, 7th Avenue & 46th Street, regardless of the weather. However, the CAGED! event will be moved indoors to Lemon Street Gallery, 4601 Sheridan Road if it rains.

Artworks

The direction from which it is viewed

When viewing this months 2nd Saturday showing by Parkside Senior students Kelly Witte and Rebecca Yelle at Artworks it would be well to keep this phrase in mind. I found that a straight on full frontal view of the absurdly outrageous flamboyance of Kelly’s subject matter worked best for me. You will have a better understanding of Kelly’s art if you will take two moments to read her apologia as you enter her show space. And please read what Rebecca has to say about her presentations. I was quite taken by the degree to which she has honed her art talent. I loved the ceramics and three dimensional paper presentations. This artist has mastered several disciplines in the broad field of “art”. I did find that I needed the prism, I obtained by reading her apologia, to gain a better understanding of her flat work: prints and such. A more oblique “direction worked best for me in viewing these selections.
All in all this is one of the better shows I have seen in a long time. And, by all means, pick up one of Kelly’s “Dinowhors” or “Slutasauresses” while you have the chance.

The Nook
The crowd here at the Nook always seems to be more like a family gathering for fellowship than just a bunch of art lovers fostering their favorite pastime. Artist Dean Talwwater has mounted a very nice show here. Very nice indeed. His sort of realistic but obscured style fits here nicely. It could be the pictures on the ceiling. The music was good and Rick had the kitchen humming taking care of this “family”. When you go to the nook you might try mentioning my name and see if there is any complementary lemonaid still to be had.

Lemon Street
Mary Neely, Tom Budzinski and Richard Keller are the points of focus for the Lemon Street offering to this months 2nd Saturday art goers. I was happy to be among them. I had another very nice chat with Maryllyn Sterling. What a charming lady. Sorry, back to the art. Mary’s photographs are just breathtaking as well as very well thought out. I wanted to take all of them home with me. Tom is quite a potter. He uses a gas fired kiln that gives him some options and latitudes not to had with an electric kiln. His work is beautiful. Richard is a master artist who indulges his flights of fancy. Fore some unknown reason I was more drawn to his sea creatures. Another friendly crowd was on hand here to enjoy these offerings.

Lester Pitz